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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Holiday Lane Pillow Blog Hop

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my US visitors and welcome one and all to my day of the Holiday Lane Pillow Hop. Special Thanks are in order for Madam Samm our head cheerleader and then for this hops fearless leader, Pauline.

This is a hop for a great holiday pillow designed by Jill Finley of http://jillilystudio.blogspot.com/. When I signed up I thought this would be a great gift, but once I thought it through I decided I wanted it for me, myself and I.

Well in our house I no longer decorate with pillows. You see, when we are not at home the assistant, Miss Tink sometimes tries her paw at interior design. She is big into rearranging pillows, either for her comfort (90 pounds of drooling dog on hand made pillow, not good) or relocating them ( generally to the floor, a little better but not much).

My compromise was to make a pillow “topper” for my bed. Ok, this was a good size pillow pattern but I have a King Size bed. I needed to make Holiday Lane into Holiday Boulevard. . I was true to the original pattern size for the houses and trees, I just needed more of them.

Lots more of them. In fact I needed 15 houses and 8 trees.

When it came time to deck the houses out I realized I didn’t want to do any stitchery ( I hate to stitch through fusible bond by hand ). So I improvised.

I just love my scrappy windows, they are bonded on. When I went to do the door knobs I thought I could use my hole punch to get little circles. Couldn’t find the hole punch but while I was searching for it I found really neat brads. They worked out so nicely.

All in all I love Holiday (Lane) Boulevard, it’s a wonderful place to celebrate the season.

Your pillow topper is just the cutest thing and I loved your narrative on how it came to be a 'boulevard'. :D This is a wonderful idea (I too hate stitching through bonding material ugh) I would love to celebrate the Holidays on The Boulevard.

Great idea on extending your Lane into a Boulevard--LOL! It's nice to know there are others out there that don't like to hand sew through fusible bond as well. You did a great job embellishing your Boulevard. Thanks for sharing.

Oh, Selina, your Holiday Boulevard is marvelous and it even gave me a chuckle - of course it had to be a Boulevard rather than a Lane! The houses are wonderful and I really do like more windows/doors. Brads make a great doorknobs!

OMG Selina, your Holiday Blvd pillow is wonderful and it looks absolutely perfect on your bed. Great job...thank you for your commitment and for sharing your time and inspiration with us during this Holiday Lane hop. Happy stitching, Pauline

This is another fun post, love that you made as a topper!!! You chose some great fabrics and colors, beautiful!!! And you're right stitching through most fusibles is a big pain (in the fingers)!!! Fused windows, good choice!! :)

What a great idea! I love how you are using it on your bed. It would be fun to make it in a twin size for a child's bed. Thanks for sharing. I never would have thought of using the pattern that way. Thank you for offering the generous giveaway.